“For more than three decades, I built institutions to prove that education could be more human, more conscious and more alive to possibility. But institutions were never the destination. They were evidence. The deeper work now is to change how the world sees human potential: not as something to be measured after it develops, but as our most valuable and most underdeveloped asset. This is the shift from building places of learning to shaping the conditions in which people, organisations and societies can become themselves. The next decade is about taking that inquiry beyond education and into the world.”
Lina’s work has never remained inside education. The same inquiry into human potential now extends across institutions, enterprise, sustainability, public policy and parenting.
Founded Kangaroo Kids, Billabong High and Dreamtime Learning, creating learner-centred models used across India and internationally. BLinC reports that her pedagogical work has been used in more than 120 schools.
Shaping the future of international education
Serves on the advisory board of TAISI, India’s longest-standing association of international schools.
Connecting ideas with investment and scale
Serves as an advisor to BLinC, an education-focused investment fund, bringing an educator’s understanding of human development into conversations about capital and growth.
Extending the conversation into parenting
Has authored two parenting books with Penguin and is co-authoring Parenting for a World That Has Already Arrived with Janine Matho. Who Do You Think You’re Kidding? and Drama Teen.
Moving from thought leadership to system leadership
Has interviewed more than 100 global thinkers across neuroscience, behavioural science, education and human potential, translating emerging ideas into learning models and institutional practice.
Taking human flourishing into enterprise
Works alongside her brothers on the Simba Global board, bringing sustainability and intergenerational responsibility into the thinking of a family enterprise.
Contributing to national conversations
Participates in advisory conversations through TAISI, We Think Bharat and the Viksit Bharat ecosystem, helping connect education, human potential and India’s development ambitions.
The thread connecting all of this is not education alone.
It is Lina’s lifelong inquiry into what helps human beings, institutions and societies become more conscious of their potential.
